In yesterday's article I told you that chemical products or fertilizers cause damage that over time have a negative impact on soil fertility, some changes that these substances undergo when they make contact with the soil and water bodies are due to unexpected chemical reactions, causing water pollution in which soluble nitrates and phosphates can cause excessive growth of aquatic plants.
▶ The excessive growth of these aquatic plants decreases the amount of dissolved oxygen and causes fish kills. In addition, these aquatic plants generate flooding problems by causing stagnation in drainage channels, and also form ideal environments for the proliferation of disease vector mosquitoes.
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This situation generates the need to use these plants as raw material in the composting process, taking into account that in the organographic structures of these plants, there are large amounts of mineral elements.
In addition, the carbon dioxide contained in these species can be used as a source of energy by the decomposing microorganisms and the high percentages of nitrogen in these materials would help the microorganisms to accelerate the production of ammoniacal nitrogen and nitrates in the composting process.
Any composting process, whether based on aquatic plants or any other raw material, is affected by the carbon/nitrogen ratio of the mixtures with which it starts, since it affects the speed of the process and the loss of ammonia during the process.
Since it is considered that microorganisms take advantage of thirty parts of carbon for each part of assimilated nitrogen, which indicates that theoretically the range of an optimal initial C/N ratio should be between 25 to 35:1.
NOTE: Reference material.